bbPress 2.6 Released! Update worth waiting 6 years

John James Jacoby announced that bbPress 2.6 was released to the public after a six-year wait. The announcement pass under the radar as WordPress 5.3 was released on the same day. bbPress is an official WordPress project for powering forums. It was initially launched on December 28, 2004, by Matt Mullenweg as a standalone project. During the first iteration’s heyday, it was popular within the WordPress community as a simple forum solution. In 2011, bbPress 2.0 relaunched as a WordPress plugin with Jacoby as the lead developer. The bbPress team is primarily comprised of four part-time contributors with nearly no